[Pkg-samba-maint] backporting samba

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu May 5 18:22:09 UTC 2016


On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 14:28 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi, you should start by contacting the maintainers, fix the current
> package, make the package go in stretch, and then ask them or on
> mentors about a possible upload/sponsor.
> 
> For sure when sid is broken, there is no way to forward the
> brokenness to jessie-bpo.

4.4.3 (currently in sid) should be in testing soon, it is only stuck
because of some experiments in running our selftest during the build
that probably should be bumped back to experimental while we wrangle
it.

I agree that 4.4.3 is the best place to start with a backport.

Andrew Bartlett

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